YAHOO! company registered the rights for the “system and method of creating packages of domain names worth developing”. The corresponding patent #8,499,032 was issued by USA Record of Patents and Trade Marks Bureau.
On the basis of a trade name or brand the system will automatically generate the domain names package. On the next level the algorythms developed by the Yahoo! specialists calculate which of the names could attract the biggest traffic.
Yahoo! specialists suppose that this creation can be of interest to large companies. Quite often “the domain portfolio” counts on tens and hundreds of names but the companies cannot decide the development of which domain would be most prospective.
This new instrument could also be helpful in the battle with cybersquatters. Although the procedure of settling the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Policy (UDRP) is relatively not expensive, large companies asserting their rights to a loadful of domain names have to spend thousands of dollars on this. Yahoo!’s creation, on its creators' opinion, will help save serious amounts - with its help companies will battle just for those domain names which could really attract serious traffic.
